Monday, August 10, 2009

Monitor Patent Applications

FreshPatents.com (http://www.freshpatents.com/) provides a free keyword monitoring service that enables you to keep up with patent applications in your field of interest. According to the FreshPatent site, you are notified within a week or two of any patent application containing the keywords you have on file with FreshPatent. So, for example, if you were particularly interested in following patent developments pertaining to “dibenzothiophene,” you would receive an alert to a patent application like the one below, filed by Exxonmobil Research And Engineering Company

Partial electro-hydrogenation of sulfur containing feedstreams followed by sulfur removal
USPTO Application #: 20090159427
Title: Partial electro-hydrogenation of sulfur containing feedstreams followed by sulfur removal

Abstract: This invention relates to the partial hydrogenation of sulfur containing petroleum feedstreams by electrochemical means. The partially hydrogenated feedstream is then conducted to processes for either conversion and removal of at least some of the sulfur-containing species from the electrochemical desulfurization process or adsorption and removal of at least some of the sulfur-containing species from the electrochemical desulfurization process. (end of abstract)

Agent: Exxonmobil Research And Engineering Company - Annandale, NJ, US
Inventors: Mark A. Greaney, Mark A. Greaney, Kun Wang, Kun Wang, Frank C. Wang, Frank C. Wang
USPTO Applicaton #: 20090159427 - Class: 204172 (USPTO)

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